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    During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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    Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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    Nobuo Fujita
    Nobuo Fujita
    The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.
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    In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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